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Jim Ltmon Barry Tice, Rock Bridge High School's tie guy, and some of his 200 ties .
Tice's ties
Rock Bridge student loves tying one on every morning
By April Adler
Mlssourian staff writer
Barry Tice collects ties like most
kids collect baseball cards. A year
ago, he only had one now he has
more than 200 and feels naked
without them.
" Everybody knows me," he
says. ' Tm probably the most rec-ognized
person at Rock Bridge.' '
Tice says he's worn a different
tie to school ever since he had to
dress up for a yearbook photo last
year. The 17- year-- old high school
senior says it's become a habit
Fnends, neighbors and teachers
often contribute old and battered
ties to Tice's arsenal. And the
worse they appear, the greater his
infatuation.
Tice says he looks for ugliness,
stain content, width and length
when buying used ties. The shorter
and fatter the better.
" So, I'm a non- conformis- t," he
says.
Tice owns a few designer ties,
but no tie clasps. He says that he is
automatically lured to the tie coun-ter
the instant he walks into a de-partment
store. Tice, who has a
part- tun- e job at a local store, says
he is usually broke so he doesn't
have the money to spend.
" I've spent $ 25, maybe $ 30 tops,"
Tice says. But he would consider
unloading the collection for a cool
$ 3,000.
Storing 20 pounds of ties can be
cumbersome, but Tice has a sys-tem.
There are two pdes: the " has
been worn" pile and the " has not
been worn" pile.
Tice says he remembers which
ties he has worn, and insists he has
only worn two ties more than once.
That was when he ran out of his
" has not been worn" pile. He im-mediately
restocked, purchasing 99
ties for $ 1.
The college- boun- d senior says he
has only stained one be. Generally,
Tice doesn't wear a jacket to go
with his ties. He is equally at ease
in a T- sh- irt and be as he is in a
three- piec- e suit.
When deciding which tie to don in
the morning, Tice says he chooses
the one that clashes the most
" If it matches too well," he says,
" I'll put it back and pick another."
It certainly would be a difficult
task to color coordinate psychedel-ic
shades of yellow, orange and
guorwpleers.
with owls and stripes and
" With ues as ugly as these it
seems to be a waste to try and
match them," he says. " Most you
couldn't match anyway."
Air war intensifies in Lebanon
BEIRUT, Lebanon ( UPI) U. S.
" Marines unleashed missile and tank
fire Tuesday to silence new attacks
by Syrian- backe- d Druze Moslem mi-litias
and Damascus said American
air strikes had put it " in a state of
war" with the United States. ,
The struggle in the air also re-sumed,
with Syria downing an Israe-li
drone over eastern Lebanon. Dam-ascus
said it destroyed a second
pilotless spy plane over southern
Syria, but Israel denied the claim.
U. S. warplanes were reported
back flying reconnaissance missions
over Lebanon despite the threat of
Syrian antiaircraft fire that downed
two American jets Sunday
Washington said top- secr- et nego-tiations
were under way with the
Syrians to gain the return of a cap-tured
American airman, Lt. Robert
Goodman, and the body of Lt. Mark
Lange, who was killed when their
plane was shot down.
Syria said Monday Goodman
would not be returned until U. S.
troops leave Lebanon but offered to
hand over Lange's body to the U. S.
Embassy. An American spokesman
Syria downs spy drones; holds pilot
refused all comment on the sensitive
discussions.
At the White House Tuesday night,
national security adviser Robert Mc- Farla- ne
said President Reagan's
special Middle East envoy, Donald
Rumsfeld, would return to the region
" in the next 24 hours" to resume
peace efforts.
McFarlane told NBC News he be-lieves
there is soil a " prospect" to
secure the withdrawal of foreign
forces from Lebanon, saying the
country's problems " are not irrecon-cilable."
- In the northern port of Tripoli,
Syrian troops and pro- Araf- at Mos-lem
gunmen waged a fierce hour- lon- g
battle, with shells falling inside
Lebanese army barracks and near
PLO chief Yasser Arafat's head-quarters.
Six people were killed and five
wounded during the afternoon fight-ing
that engulfed six neighborhoods
in northeastern Tripoli before a
cease- fir- e agreement was reached at
dusk.
As darkness fell across the Marine
compound around Beirut airport, the
Americans came under " heavy con-centrated
machine- gu- n fire from for-tified
positions," Marine spokesman
Maj. Dennis Brooks said.
There were no Marine casualties
in the new attack.
The Marines, still shaken by at-tacks
that killed eight men and
wounded two others Sunday after the
air strikes, fired back with four gre-nades,
a round from an M- 6- 0 tank, a
66mm anti- tan- k round and a single
anti- tan- k Dragon missile.
" All fire ceased as soon as we re-turned,
the fire," Brooks said.
The fire came from the Druze- con- troll- ed
fulls to the east of the Ma-rines.
The leader of the secretive re-ligious
sect had called earlier for
more fighters to combat the United
States.
Druze leader Walid Jumblatt,
touring villages in his mountains to
the east of Beirut, was quoted by the
conservative International News
Agency condemning President Rea-gan.
" Holding the gun is the sole guar-antee
of our survival," Jumblatt
said.
Syria also kept up its verbal at-tacks
on Washington in the wake of
Sunday's unprecedented American
air strikes against Syrian troops,
asking " how the master of the White
House can ride both the horses of
peace and war at once."
" What concerns us is our fight to
defend our soldiers and national and
regional borders," a Syrian radio
commentary said. " It is the Ameri-can
administration that chose to put
itself into a state of war and con-frontation
with us."
Official Beirut radio reported 10
planes from the multinational peace-keeping
force flew reconnaisance
missions, sweeping from the sea
across the mountains. Christian
Phalange radio identified at least
some of the Jets as U. S. F- 1- 4s
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see Page 3B. v3K38! V ! I
$ 300 million tax bill
approved by Senate;
voter OK required
By Lindsay Psterson and Mary Kaull
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY - The Mis-souri
Senate reversed itself Tues-day,
giving first round approval to a
$ 300 million tax package that would
impose a 10 percent surcharge on in-dividual
income taxes but would re-quire
voter approval in February
Just a day earlier, the senators de-feated
a similar proposal whose only
differences were that the increased
taxes would have gone into effect
early next year with voter approval
scheduled in April 1985.
Under the package passed Tues-day,
the tax plan would go into effect
m April if it receives approval Feb.
7.
A second legislative vote on the
measure, which is required, should
come today. It then would go to the
House.
Gov. Christopher Bond has warned
legislators that without a tax in-crease,
$ 63 million would have to be
cut from state services. Before Tues-day's
vote, Bond walked the Senate
halls andtned to rally support.
At least one senator theorized that
pressure applied by the governor ac-counted
for the vote switch- over- s.
" The change is a result of sheer
pressure," said Sen. Emory Melton,
R- Cassv-fllle
The provision to seek voter ap-proval
in February succeeded in
bringing around at least two Repub-licans,
who were among seven sen-ators
who changed their votes to en-able
passage of the bill.
But ore of the Republicans, Sen.
Fred Dyer, R- S- t. Charles, insists he
didn't switch his vote. Neither he nor
his constituents want a tax increase.
Several senators, including Der,
argue that immediate budget cuts
are not necessary " I think the state
is in good shape right now " al-though
he said new rev enues would
be needed for fiscal year 1385
Key House leaders Tuesday
seemed pleased with the turn of
events House Speaker Bob Griffin,
D- Camer-on,
said the Senate had tak-en
the " big step" by voting for a
measure that includes an income- ta- x
increase
Griffin, however, said he still sup-ports
a $ 335 million House proposal
that calls for tax reform, including
graduated increases in the individu-al
and corporate income taxes " The
surcharge simply aggravates an in-adequate
system that we're trying to
improve now," he said
If the Senate gives its package fi-nal
approval today, Gnffm said he
would send it to committee on Thurs-day,
and the measure might then be
ready for debate on the House floor
Monday
Griffin said a House tax measure
would be substituted for the Senate
plan when the bill reaches the lower
chamber. But House and Senate
leaders now agree that any tax plan
will include a provision for voter ap-proval.
After Senate debate on the
amended bill, several senators said
any revenue- producin- g measure
should first be put to the voters
" Once a vote is taken, we'll know a
lot more about where we stand on
taxes," Dyer said He said a vote
against a tax increase may be an in-dication
that people want budget
See REVENUE. Page 8A
ROTC remembers
Vietnam- er- a MIAs
By Barbara Rehm
Mlssourian staff writer
Louise Van Hoozer strained to
check her emotions as she faced the
audience gathered in a University
auditorium.
It was tough.
Her topic, Americans still missing
in Vietnam, has a personal tie her
brother. In June 1968, his F4D Air
Force jet was shot down. He was de-clared
missing in action. Since that
day, the Savannah, Mo., resident has
channeled much of her energy into
the resolution of questions surround-ing
American servicemen still unac-counted
for in Vietnam.
" I've spent 15 years of my life with
this, and I think I know it inside and
out," Van Hoozer told her audience
last Sunday
The Arnold Air Society, a service
organization with the University's
Air Force ROTC program, spon-sored
the gathering, which featured
several speeches and a candlelight
service to emphasize the need to ac-count
for the MIAs.
Van Hoozer is regional coordinator
for the National League of POW- MI- A
Families Founded in 1970,
league membership has grown to
1,400. All are relatives of the miss-ing.
The group is committed to the re-turn
of 2,500 Americans reportedly
being held prisoner in Southeast
Asia. Sunday's program in Columbia
coincided with similar POW- MI- A
league meetings nationwide.
Van Hoozer estimates the number
of gatherings " ran into the thou-sands."
Declaring she " loves this coun-try,"
Van Hoozer detailed the histo-ry
of the league's efforts to what its
members perceive as government
inattention to the MIA issue De-scribing
the league as a " burr under
the government's skin," Van Hoozer
expressed some optimism when she
spoke of recently renewed govern-mentinterest
in MIAs.
" We have been assured that this is
DKDE17
a top national priority," she said
According to a " POW- MI- A Fact
Book" published by the U S Depart-ment
of Defense in 1983, the govern-ment
has received more than 1,840
reports from Indochinese refugees
about missing Americans
The books states that the reports,
the uncooperative response of the
governments in Southeast Asia and
the fact that " some of the missing
initially survived the incident in
which they were lost, preclude rul-ing
out the possibility that Ameri-cans
may be alive "
Accordhng to the book, 52 Missour- lan- s
are among the 2,500 men unac-counted
for in Vietnam
" We know there are people over
there We know they are being mis-treated
We want the American peo-ple
to help us," Van Hoozer said
She said the North Vietnamese are
" interested" in how the American
people feel a bout the missing men
Wearing one of the once- popul- ar
POW- MI- A identification bracelets,
this one bearing her missing broth-er's
name, Van Hoozer said it is dif-ficult
to focus public attenbon on the
MIA issue when the world confronts
so many major problems
" Now that the war is over, it's
easy to forget, unless you have
someone over there," Van Hoozer
said
As the candles were lit, the names
of the 52 missing Missounans were
called off.
Van Hoozer expressed her feelings
when she heard the narrator read
her brother's name. " At last some-one
besides the family was remem-bering
my brother is not home "
Americans can show their concern
for men soil missing in Vietnam by
sending the MIAs Christmas cards
in care of the Socialist Republic of
Vietnam, United Nations represen-tative,
20 Waterside Plaza, New
York, N. Y. 10010

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SportsQub members invited WKBPJBI Baltimore pitcher Mike Bod-- i TTOft Bi dicker to be their guest at the itJ B
WTueesfdroamy fBanonddbiocyketro tfoalrdmohfahndj W'WWmil I
. Rwjie of the Year, and 1J i what life under former Oriole &&. J manager Earl Weaver was P 1
Yummy yams dnMfipF ;'
Are most sweet potatoes stuck WKHBqBjjjjtC' '
in a yam? Grocers who call HHhDW& f sweet potatoes yams are usual-- ORHHMj ly wrong. What they call yams JHBHwPii are actually sweet potatoes. IShHk ffi Confused? Learh the difference igSLHGflKr 1
between a yam and a sweet po-- gMBBUttBmi I
tato and how to prepare some WmttHBE ' 1
of these tasty potato dishes. !$ p! lIHHRp I
jf .$ o( ttmto " KP
r r r " " 1908- 198- 3
76th Year No. 73 Good Morning! It's Wednesday, December 7, 1983 10 Sections 66 Pages 25 Cents
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Jim Ltmon Barry Tice, Rock Bridge High School's tie guy, and some of his 200 ties .
Tice's ties
Rock Bridge student loves tying one on every morning
By April Adler
Mlssourian staff writer
Barry Tice collects ties like most
kids collect baseball cards. A year
ago, he only had one now he has
more than 200 and feels naked
without them.
" Everybody knows me," he
says. ' Tm probably the most rec-ognized
person at Rock Bridge.' '
Tice says he's worn a different
tie to school ever since he had to
dress up for a yearbook photo last
year. The 17- year-- old high school
senior says it's become a habit
Fnends, neighbors and teachers
often contribute old and battered
ties to Tice's arsenal. And the
worse they appear, the greater his
infatuation.
Tice says he looks for ugliness,
stain content, width and length
when buying used ties. The shorter
and fatter the better.
" So, I'm a non- conformis- t," he
says.
Tice owns a few designer ties,
but no tie clasps. He says that he is
automatically lured to the tie coun-ter
the instant he walks into a de-partment
store. Tice, who has a
part- tun- e job at a local store, says
he is usually broke so he doesn't
have the money to spend.
" I've spent $ 25, maybe $ 30 tops,"
Tice says. But he would consider
unloading the collection for a cool
$ 3,000.
Storing 20 pounds of ties can be
cumbersome, but Tice has a sys-tem.
There are two pdes: the " has
been worn" pile and the " has not
been worn" pile.
Tice says he remembers which
ties he has worn, and insists he has
only worn two ties more than once.
That was when he ran out of his
" has not been worn" pile. He im-mediately
restocked, purchasing 99
ties for $ 1.
The college- boun- d senior says he
has only stained one be. Generally,
Tice doesn't wear a jacket to go
with his ties. He is equally at ease
in a T- sh- irt and be as he is in a
three- piec- e suit.
When deciding which tie to don in
the morning, Tice says he chooses
the one that clashes the most
" If it matches too well," he says,
" I'll put it back and pick another."
It certainly would be a difficult
task to color coordinate psychedel-ic
shades of yellow, orange and
guorwpleers.
with owls and stripes and
" With ues as ugly as these it
seems to be a waste to try and
match them," he says. " Most you
couldn't match anyway."
Air war intensifies in Lebanon
BEIRUT, Lebanon ( UPI) U. S.
" Marines unleashed missile and tank
fire Tuesday to silence new attacks
by Syrian- backe- d Druze Moslem mi-litias
and Damascus said American
air strikes had put it " in a state of
war" with the United States. ,
The struggle in the air also re-sumed,
with Syria downing an Israe-li
drone over eastern Lebanon. Dam-ascus
said it destroyed a second
pilotless spy plane over southern
Syria, but Israel denied the claim.
U. S. warplanes were reported
back flying reconnaissance missions
over Lebanon despite the threat of
Syrian antiaircraft fire that downed
two American jets Sunday
Washington said top- secr- et nego-tiations
were under way with the
Syrians to gain the return of a cap-tured
American airman, Lt. Robert
Goodman, and the body of Lt. Mark
Lange, who was killed when their
plane was shot down.
Syria said Monday Goodman
would not be returned until U. S.
troops leave Lebanon but offered to
hand over Lange's body to the U. S.
Embassy. An American spokesman
Syria downs spy drones; holds pilot
refused all comment on the sensitive
discussions.
At the White House Tuesday night,
national security adviser Robert Mc- Farla- ne
said President Reagan's
special Middle East envoy, Donald
Rumsfeld, would return to the region
" in the next 24 hours" to resume
peace efforts.
McFarlane told NBC News he be-lieves
there is soil a " prospect" to
secure the withdrawal of foreign
forces from Lebanon, saying the
country's problems " are not irrecon-cilable."
- In the northern port of Tripoli,
Syrian troops and pro- Araf- at Mos-lem
gunmen waged a fierce hour- lon- g
battle, with shells falling inside
Lebanese army barracks and near
PLO chief Yasser Arafat's head-quarters.
Six people were killed and five
wounded during the afternoon fight-ing
that engulfed six neighborhoods
in northeastern Tripoli before a
cease- fir- e agreement was reached at
dusk.
As darkness fell across the Marine
compound around Beirut airport, the
Americans came under " heavy con-centrated
machine- gu- n fire from for-tified
positions," Marine spokesman
Maj. Dennis Brooks said.
There were no Marine casualties
in the new attack.
The Marines, still shaken by at-tacks
that killed eight men and
wounded two others Sunday after the
air strikes, fired back with four gre-nades,
a round from an M- 6- 0 tank, a
66mm anti- tan- k round and a single
anti- tan- k Dragon missile.
" All fire ceased as soon as we re-turned,
the fire," Brooks said.
The fire came from the Druze- con- troll- ed
fulls to the east of the Ma-rines.
The leader of the secretive re-ligious
sect had called earlier for
more fighters to combat the United
States.
Druze leader Walid Jumblatt,
touring villages in his mountains to
the east of Beirut, was quoted by the
conservative International News
Agency condemning President Rea-gan.
" Holding the gun is the sole guar-antee
of our survival," Jumblatt
said.
Syria also kept up its verbal at-tacks
on Washington in the wake of
Sunday's unprecedented American
air strikes against Syrian troops,
asking " how the master of the White
House can ride both the horses of
peace and war at once."
" What concerns us is our fight to
defend our soldiers and national and
regional borders," a Syrian radio
commentary said. " It is the Ameri-can
administration that chose to put
itself into a state of war and con-frontation
with us."
Official Beirut radio reported 10
planes from the multinational peace-keeping
force flew reconnaisance
missions, sweeping from the sea
across the mountains. Christian
Phalange radio identified at least
some of the Jets as U. S. F- 1- 4s
Kitchen crazy hLdIII Al " Buck" Larson is relishing --. JkSSKB a lifelong love affair with cook- - & 3 r 16 ing. As the chief culinary artist mjjjifiS'!, jB fhoarppNieorwewlThs, ettinhge ccouusltdonm'terbse' WUBf 4 8i? i Hm
appetites with the aroma of a HbBH I smoke- cure- d ham or a barbe- - HHr-- B i qfuee- bawst- edof his scpruomrkptiroouasst. reFciopresa, BHa& HHSvrtam1H II
see Page 3B. v3K38! V ! I
$ 300 million tax bill
approved by Senate;
voter OK required
By Lindsay Psterson and Mary Kaull
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY - The Mis-souri
Senate reversed itself Tues-day,
giving first round approval to a
$ 300 million tax package that would
impose a 10 percent surcharge on in-dividual
income taxes but would re-quire
voter approval in February
Just a day earlier, the senators de-feated
a similar proposal whose only
differences were that the increased
taxes would have gone into effect
early next year with voter approval
scheduled in April 1985.
Under the package passed Tues-day,
the tax plan would go into effect
m April if it receives approval Feb.
7.
A second legislative vote on the
measure, which is required, should
come today. It then would go to the
House.
Gov. Christopher Bond has warned
legislators that without a tax in-crease,
$ 63 million would have to be
cut from state services. Before Tues-day's
vote, Bond walked the Senate
halls andtned to rally support.
At least one senator theorized that
pressure applied by the governor ac-counted
for the vote switch- over- s.
" The change is a result of sheer
pressure," said Sen. Emory Melton,
R- Cassv-fllle
The provision to seek voter ap-proval
in February succeeded in
bringing around at least two Repub-licans,
who were among seven sen-ators
who changed their votes to en-able
passage of the bill.
But ore of the Republicans, Sen.
Fred Dyer, R- S- t. Charles, insists he
didn't switch his vote. Neither he nor
his constituents want a tax increase.
Several senators, including Der,
argue that immediate budget cuts
are not necessary " I think the state
is in good shape right now " al-though
he said new rev enues would
be needed for fiscal year 1385
Key House leaders Tuesday
seemed pleased with the turn of
events House Speaker Bob Griffin,
D- Camer-on,
said the Senate had tak-en
the " big step" by voting for a
measure that includes an income- ta- x
increase
Griffin, however, said he still sup-ports
a $ 335 million House proposal
that calls for tax reform, including
graduated increases in the individu-al
and corporate income taxes " The
surcharge simply aggravates an in-adequate
system that we're trying to
improve now," he said
If the Senate gives its package fi-nal
approval today, Gnffm said he
would send it to committee on Thurs-day,
and the measure might then be
ready for debate on the House floor
Monday
Griffin said a House tax measure
would be substituted for the Senate
plan when the bill reaches the lower
chamber. But House and Senate
leaders now agree that any tax plan
will include a provision for voter ap-proval.
After Senate debate on the
amended bill, several senators said
any revenue- producin- g measure
should first be put to the voters
" Once a vote is taken, we'll know a
lot more about where we stand on
taxes," Dyer said He said a vote
against a tax increase may be an in-dication
that people want budget
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ROTC remembers
Vietnam- er- a MIAs
By Barbara Rehm
Mlssourian staff writer
Louise Van Hoozer strained to
check her emotions as she faced the
audience gathered in a University
auditorium.
It was tough.
Her topic, Americans still missing
in Vietnam, has a personal tie her
brother. In June 1968, his F4D Air
Force jet was shot down. He was de-clared
missing in action. Since that
day, the Savannah, Mo., resident has
channeled much of her energy into
the resolution of questions surround-ing
American servicemen still unac-counted
for in Vietnam.
" I've spent 15 years of my life with
this, and I think I know it inside and
out," Van Hoozer told her audience
last Sunday
The Arnold Air Society, a service
organization with the University's
Air Force ROTC program, spon-sored
the gathering, which featured
several speeches and a candlelight
service to emphasize the need to ac-count
for the MIAs.
Van Hoozer is regional coordinator
for the National League of POW- MI- A
Families Founded in 1970,
league membership has grown to
1,400. All are relatives of the miss-ing.
The group is committed to the re-turn
of 2,500 Americans reportedly
being held prisoner in Southeast
Asia. Sunday's program in Columbia
coincided with similar POW- MI- A
league meetings nationwide.
Van Hoozer estimates the number
of gatherings " ran into the thou-sands."
Declaring she " loves this coun-try,"
Van Hoozer detailed the histo-ry
of the league's efforts to what its
members perceive as government
inattention to the MIA issue De-scribing
the league as a " burr under
the government's skin," Van Hoozer
expressed some optimism when she
spoke of recently renewed govern-mentinterest
in MIAs.
" We have been assured that this is
DKDE17
a top national priority," she said
According to a " POW- MI- A Fact
Book" published by the U S Depart-ment
of Defense in 1983, the govern-ment
has received more than 1,840
reports from Indochinese refugees
about missing Americans
The books states that the reports,
the uncooperative response of the
governments in Southeast Asia and
the fact that " some of the missing
initially survived the incident in
which they were lost, preclude rul-ing
out the possibility that Ameri-cans
may be alive "
Accordhng to the book, 52 Missour- lan- s
are among the 2,500 men unac-counted
for in Vietnam
" We know there are people over
there We know they are being mis-treated
We want the American peo-ple
to help us," Van Hoozer said
She said the North Vietnamese are
" interested" in how the American
people feel a bout the missing men
Wearing one of the once- popul- ar
POW- MI- A identification bracelets,
this one bearing her missing broth-er's
name, Van Hoozer said it is dif-ficult
to focus public attenbon on the
MIA issue when the world confronts
so many major problems
" Now that the war is over, it's
easy to forget, unless you have
someone over there," Van Hoozer
said
As the candles were lit, the names
of the 52 missing Missounans were
called off.
Van Hoozer expressed her feelings
when she heard the narrator read
her brother's name. " At last some-one
besides the family was remem-bering
my brother is not home "
Americans can show their concern
for men soil missing in Vietnam by
sending the MIAs Christmas cards
in care of the Socialist Republic of
Vietnam, United Nations represen-tative,
20 Waterside Plaza, New
York, N. Y. 10010